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Aviation medicine and the airline passenger
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Edited by: Cummin and Nicholson (£65.00) 2002. Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd. ISBN 0 340 80637 0 (hardback)
Books on aviation medicine and physiology tend to be written by specialists for specialists. This book is by specialists for generalists and will be of value to all doctors asked by patients for health advice prior to flying. It will also be useful, in advance it is hoped, to doctors asked to help with a patient on board a commercial flight. A distinguished group of authors has been assembled: some from the aviation medicine field and some from other relevant specialties including obstetrics, paediatrics, cardiology, and respiratory medicine. Twenty …